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The development of a mental health service in East Timor: an Australian mental health relief project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Chris Tennant  and
Derrick Silove
Chris Tennant
Affiliation:
University of Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia; Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia, email [email protected]
Derrick Silove
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales Technical Adviser, East Timor National Mental Health Project
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East Timor (the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor, which lies between North Western Australia and the Indonesian archipelago. East Timor has a population of around 860 000. It is predominantly rural and there are few large towns. The country has a largely subsistence agricultural economy; coffee is the principal cash crop. The population is extremely poor, and transport and communications are primitive.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 8 , April 2005 , pp. 17 - 19
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